College students are an excellent apolitical example - these are people who are guaranteed transient, hate the population who actually live there ("townies" amirite?) and on top, they're loud, party a lot, and do other forms of criminal activity.
Houses form a large portion of someone's net worth, moving costs a lot of money and besides, the person you want to force to move may be unable to move.
Why would they vote to let you build university housing next door to them?
Every single aspect of that dorm negatively impacts their quality of life, and further reduces their ability to afford to live anywhere else.
You can say this is "shortsighted" because of urbanist sympathies, but the reality is that voters are basically perpetually punished for allowing any kind of building. Over time, cabals of "absolutely not" form.
Houses form a large portion of someone's net worth, moving costs a lot of money and besides, the person you want to force to move may be unable to move.
Why would they vote to let you build university housing next door to them?
Every single aspect of that dorm negatively impacts their quality of life, and further reduces their ability to afford to live anywhere else.
You can say this is "shortsighted" because of urbanist sympathies, but the reality is that voters are basically perpetually punished for allowing any kind of building. Over time, cabals of "absolutely not" form.